Great Mysteries in Astrophysics (eBook)

A guide to what we don’t know

Nicole Lloyd-Ronning (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2022
200 Seiten
Institute of Physics Publishing (Verlag)
978-0-7503-4051-9 (ISBN)

Infos

This book explores the biggest gaps in our understanding of the universe. It describes how astronomers see and gather information and covers topics where knowledge is incomplete. Topics include dark matter, the Hubble constant/tension, deaths of massive stars, mysteries associated with black holes, neutron stars and binary/multiple systems.

Autor

Nicole Lloyd-Ronning is an astrophysicist in Northern New Mexico who studies all aspects of the physics behind the deaths of massive stars, the black hole-accretion disk systems they leave behind, the relativistic jets they launch, and the role these events play in global star formation throughout the history of our universe. She received the Distinguished Mentor Award at Los Alamos National Lab in 2019, the Faculty Initiative Award at University of New Mexico, Los Alamos in 2020 and the Los Alamos National Lab Community Medal in 2021.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 11.10.2022
• Reihe/Serie: AAS-IOP Astronomy
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• Zusatzinfo: With figures in colour and black and white
• Verlagsort: Bristol
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Schlagworte: Astronomy • Black Holes • dark energy • Dark Matter • high-energy astrophysics • hubble constant • Hubble Tension • Massive Stars • Neutron Stars • stellar binaries
• ISBN-10: 0-7503-4051-7 / 0750340517
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7503-4051-9 / 9780750340519